Healthcare. Man. Here’s a front-page story from today’s Times, where they are getting increasingly frustrated (see also: yesterday) with America, and becoming more and more open to just straight-up calling everyone idiots, which is objectively true, after all.

This article, by the lawyer Scott Horton, a Harper’s contributor who’s been owning the torture beat for several years, features the most depressing headline of the week.

Meet Dr. Warren Hern, the last doctor in America who performs late-term abortions.

I love long considerations of dead authors that are published without any kind of contemporaneous hook whatsoever. Here’s a few thousand words on Isak Dinesen, because a few thousand words on Isak Dinesen is its own justification whether there’s a new bio out or not.

Old clip: Bill Moyers talks to Joseph Heller in the late 80s; the two of them attempt, at times and with varying enthusiasm, to pretend that people are interested in Heller for reasons other than Catch-22.